Get 15% off of the “Getting Started Package” when you mention VentureMom!! Sometimes when you take a chance, your next opportunity falls into your lap. Monica Banks worked for a large marketing firm in the city and was acting as a branding consultant for major products like Gillette, Haagen Dazs
Writing in her journal since the 7th grade led to her venture. Kelly Corrigan was a fundraiser for non-profits in her past life but she always wanted to be a writer, “This was my dream, flat out, exactly this.” With her first book making it on to the New York
Connecting her single friends led her to a party venture. Samantha Loomis came from the ad sales world but she was always known for throwing great parties. It was 1996, when Samantha decided to throw her first party to help connect friends and it just so happened that Valentine’s Day
When all of her friends kept talking about how hard it was to juggle everything from emails, voicemails, magazines, iPad apps, to-do lists, vacation plans, birthday parties, kids’ classes, exercise and everything else, she figured there must be a business venture in the idea of simplifying the lives of busy
After a decade of volunteering “ad naseum” she decided she needed a job. Dawn DeCosta had been an account manager for US Bank and left when she had her first child. In 2010, Dawn applied to work at an Apple Store. “I felt like I had landed at the mother
Women talk all the time. Let’s say you’re standing in line at the grocery and start up a conversation that turns to your current business venture. Most likely, you don’t have your cards with you, the kids are running to the car and you want to exchange info with the
What happens when two women who spent their entire careers focused on micro finance and assisting start-ups, decide to start a venture that will help women fund new businesses. Brenda Bazan and Nancy Hayes first met at IBM in the 1980s. They each went on to different career paths but
How many of us have boxes of old photos waiting to be put into albums? files of photos on our computers? or stacks of video tapes that should be on DVDs before they deteriorate? Many moms look at those piles and shove everything back in the closet. It all seems
The first time she walked into a Babies R Us, she burst into tears. Allyson Downey recalls what happened, “I looked up at a ten-foot wall of baby bottles and saw it as a metaphor for how completely unprepared I was to be a parent. So when I got home,
“In my wildest dreams I never thought I’d be a software entrepreneur.” So how did Darcy Ahl go from riding with her 16 year old son on Hwy 95, to running a start-up company? It was an experience she had when her son had his learner’s permit. He was driving